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20 Heller Seitenstetten
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Seitenstetten (Market Town of Seitenstetten) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset notgeld issue in dark brown ink on cream paper, with a decorative rope-style border running the full perimeter. The heading reads 'Gutschein der Marktgemeinde Seitenstetten' in Gothic blackletter script across the top, with the denomination stated in large type as 'Zwanzig. 20 Heller'. A block of authorizing text in the centre records the council resolution of 7 April 1920, pledging redemption in legal tender by December 1920; below this, a central vignette presents the municipal coat of arms within an oval cartouche flanked by foliate scrollwork. The Bürgermeister's manuscript signature 'Zwack' appears to the lower right. |
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| Signature(s) | Zwack |
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Seitenstetten is a small market town in Lower Austria best known for its Benedictine abbey, and this 20 Heller notgeld was issued by the municipal authority — not the abbey — during the acute coin shortage that gripped Austria in the immediate postwar years. The Habsburg monetary system had collapsed with the empire itself, and hundreds of Austrian municipalities scrambled to print their own small-denomination emergency issues to keep local commerce moving.
Graf Druckerei in Steyr, a regional press that handled a number of these local commissions, produced the note. The single signature — Zwack — almost certainly belonged to the Bürgermeister or a municipal treasurer, though the name doesn't appear prominently in surviving civic records from this period.